1. Bertram D. Wolfe did make it clear that he considers the story to be a patent fabrication, unworthy, it would seem, of extended disproof. See Three Who Made a Revolution (New York, 1948), p. 469n.

2. Tompkins, Stuart R., The Triumph of Bolshevism (Norman, Okla., 1967), p. 217.Google Scholar

3. Beucler, André and Alexinsky, G. A., Les Amours secrHes de Lénine: D'après les mémoirs de Lise de K (Paris, 1937).Google Scholar According to David Shub, the work was serially published in Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (Paris), Oct. 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, 1936. In the light of the argument that follows, I have not thought it important to find this edition of the story.

4. David, Shub, Lenin: A Biography (New York, 1948), pp. 81–82, 86-88, 108, 110-13.Google Scholar Shub states (p. 403) that “she [Lise] also published photostatic copies of excerpts from letters to her from Lenin, written clearly in Lenin's handwriting.” No data on this “publication” is provided, nor has anyone else, to my knowledge, ever asserted that the lady herself published anything whatsoever. Since it appears that the late Boris Nicolaevsky was shown some kind of manuscript evidence of the letters (see below, concerning Robert Payne's book), I surmise that Shub is referring to some kind of limited circulation of some “document” of this sort in émigré circles.

5. Robert, Payne, The Life and Death of Lenin (New York, 1967), pp. 205–15, 640-41.Google Scholar

6. Michael, Futrell, Northern Underground: Episodes of Russian Revolutionary Transport and Communications Through Scandinavia and Finland, 1863-1917 (London, 1963), chap. 7.Google Scholar

7. G. A. Alexinsky, “Vospominaniia” (typescript in the Russian Archives, Columbia University). I wish to thank Philip E. Mosely for permission to use the archives and Lev Magerovsky for calling my attention to the Alexinsky memoirs.

8. Ibid., p. 56.

9. Ibid., pp. 212-13.